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Sapiens : Une brève histoire de l'humanité
- Written by: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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Des Gaulois aux Carolingiens (Histoire de France 1)
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- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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En près de cinq heures, cet audio retrace l'histoire de France depuis les Gaulois jusqu'à la fin de l'empire carolingien...
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Les mythes de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
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Les explorations nocturnes
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Les énigmes de l'histoire de France
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Sur plus de vingt siècles de notre passé national, vingt récits, par les meilleurs spécialistes, dévoilant ou expliquant des épisodes souvent...
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L'art de la guerre
- Written by: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Hervé Lacroix
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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"L'art de la guerre" est le premier traité de stratégie militaire écrit au monde. Son auteur, Sun Tzu développe des thèses originales qui s'inspirent de la philosophie chinoise ancienne.
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Sapiens : Une brève histoire de l'humanité
- Written by: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Philippe Sollier
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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Des Gaulois aux Carolingiens (Histoire de France 1)
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- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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En près de cinq heures, cet audio retrace l'histoire de France depuis les Gaulois jusqu'à la fin de l'empire carolingien...
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Les mythes de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
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- Narrated by: Olivier Chauvel
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Les explorations nocturnes
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Les énigmes de l'histoire de France
- Written by: Jean-Christian Petitfils
- Narrated by: Jean-Yves Berteloot
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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L'art de la guerre
- Written by: Sun Tzu
- Narrated by: Hervé Lacroix
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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"L'art de la guerre" est le premier traité de stratégie militaire écrit au monde. Son auteur, Sun Tzu développe des thèses originales qui s'inspirent de la philosophie chinoise ancienne.
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Histoire de Rome
- Written by: Stéphane Benoist
- Narrated by: Stéphane Benoist
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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De ses mythes fondateurs à son effondrement face aux invasions barbares, ce coffret retrace l'épopée de l'Histoire de Rome...
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Histoire des pharaons : Idéologie de l'État en Égypte anciennce
- Written by: Jean Winand
- Narrated by: Jean Winand
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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Pendant près de trois millénaires, les Pharaons ont régné sur l'Égypte antique sans que le caractère divin et absolu de leur pouvoir n'ait été remis en cause...
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L'empereur des rois
- Napoléon 3
- Written by: Max Gallo
- Narrated by: Jean-Marc Galéra
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
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Il est Napoléon le Grand : après Austerlitz, qui peut arrêter l'Empereur des Français ? Il bouscule les Rois, à Iéna, à Friedland, à Wagram...
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Hexagone : sur les routes de l'Histoire de France
- Written by: Lorànt Deutsch
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- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Après l'immense succès de "Métronome", Lorànt Deutsch met une nouvelle fois son formidable talent de conteur au service de l'Histoire de notre pays...
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Histoire mondiale de la France
- Written by: Patrick Boucheron
- Narrated by: Mathieu Buscatto
- Length: 32 hrs and 54 mins
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Voici une histoire de France, de toute la France, en très longue durée qui mène de la grotte Chauvet aux événements de 2015, sans s'embarrasser...
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Le chant du départ
- Napoléon 1
- Written by: Max Gallo
- Narrated by: Jean-Marc Galéra
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
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Il est arrivé le 15 mai 1779 à l'École royale militaire de Brienne. Il n'a pas encore dix ans et parle à peine le français... Il va rester cinq ans dans cette école...
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Le soleil d'Austerlitz
- Napoléon 2
- Written by: Max Gallo
- Narrated by: Jean-Marc Galéra
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
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Napoléon a trente ans en ce mois de noembre 1799. Il est Premier consul. Dans cinq ans, il sera Empereur des Français...
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Histoire des sexualités 2 : L'âge des Lumières - Le XIXe siècle - Les XXe et XXIe siècles
- Written by: Sylvie Steinberg, Gabrielle Houbre, Christine Bard
- Narrated by: Sylvie Steinberg, Gabrielle Houbre, Christine Bard
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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Les Presses Universitaires de France et Frémeaux & Associés proposent des cours particuliers sur l' "Histoire des sexualités"...
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Le Moyen Age (Histoire de la littérature française 1)
- Written by: Alain Viala
- Narrated by: Alain Viala, Daniel Mesguich
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Alain Viala nous propose une plongée dans le Moyen Age sous forme d'un cours didactique que Daniel Mesguich illustre par des lectures de textes, qui nous imprègnent d'une époque et de son expression.
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La France mystérieuse
- Written by: David Galley
- Narrated by: Hervé Carrascosa
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
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Un tour de France du mystère et de l'étrange. "L'imagination est plus importante que le savoir" - Albert Einstein. Phénomènes étranges, lieux...
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L'immortel de Sainte-Hélène
- Napoléon 4
- Written by: Max Gallo
- Narrated by: Jean-Marc Galéra
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
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Ici se nouent les derniers actes du fabuleux destin de Napoléon. Le 24 juin 1812, il entre en Russie à la tête de la Grande Armée...
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Histoire des sexualités 1 : Grèce et Rome Antique - Occident médiéval - Renaissance
- Written by: Sandra Boehringer, Didier Lett, Sylvie Steinberg
- Narrated by: Sandra Boehringer, Didier Lett, Sylvie Steinberg
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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Les Presses Universitaires de France et Frémeaux & Associés proposent des cours particuliers sur l'"Histoire des sexualités", racontée, expliquée et...
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Métronome. L'Histoire de France au rythme du métro parisien
- Métronome 1
- Written by: Lorànt Deutsch
- Narrated by: Lorànt Deutsch
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Saviez-vous que la Lutèce des origines ne se situait pas sur l'île de la Cité, mais à Nanterre ? Que les derniers combattants gaulois massacrés par les Romains reposent sous la tour Eiffel...
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Un fauteuil sur la Seine : Quatre siècles d'histoire de France
- Written by: Amin Maalouf
- Narrated by: Yann Collette
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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Amin Maalouf, élu au 29e fauteuil de l'Académie française et successeur de Claude Lévi-Strauss, compose les portraits des dix-huit grands hommes...
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Le Romantisme (Histoire de la littérature française 5)
- Written by: Alain Viala
- Narrated by: Daniel Mesguich
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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Enclin à la rêverie, à l'appréciation de la nature ou à l'expression des passions de l'me, le Romantisme forge de nouveaux modèles de représentation du monde...
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Les Lumières (Histoire de la littérature française 4)
- Written by: Alain Viala
- Narrated by: Daniel Mesguich, Alain Viala
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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Alain Viala nous plonge dans l'intensité du XVIIIe siècle, âge de bouillonnement culturel où les hommes osent affirmer leur individualité...
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Learn Strategy with Sun Tzu, Napoleon and Machiavelli
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"The Prince" is the most famous of Machiavelli's works; it gives very clear, precise and realistic instructions on how to gain and maintain power...
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L'Age classique (Histoire de la littérature française 3)
- Written by: Alain Viala
- Narrated by: Daniel Mesguich, Alain Viala
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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Histoire de France, de Clovis à Napoléon
- Written by: Jacques Bainville
- Narrated by: Philippe Colin
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Quand il était au collège, Jacques Bainville n'aimait pas l'histoire. Que discerner dans ce tissu de drames sans suite, cette mêlée, ce chaos...
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Le premier XXe siècle (Histoire de la littérature française)
- Written by: Alain Viala
- Narrated by: Alain Viala, Daniel Mesguich
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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La révolution néolithique : Naissance de l'agriculture
- Written by: Jean-Paul Demoule
- Narrated by: Jean-Paul Demoule
- Length: 51 mins
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La transformation des chasseurs-cueilleurs en agriculteurs-éleveurs il y a une dizaine de milliers d'années est à l'origine de bouleversements...
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livre très intéressant!
- By Amazon Customer on 2018-10-30
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La Renaissance (Histoire de la littérature française 2)
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Alain Viala se penche, dans ce deuxième volume, sur l’histoire littéraire de la Renaissance à travers les mutations du monde, du livre et de l’enseignement...
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La France des Lumières et des Révolutions (Histoire de France 5)
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En près de cinq heures, cet audio retrace l'histoire de France de 1715 à 1815, incarnée par Olivier Coquard, spécialiste d'histoire moderne...
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André Malraux : Grands discours 1946-1973
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Comprendre Malraux, c'est d'abord l'écouter. Sa parole est une illumination. Un éclairage indispensable...
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Métronome. Paris intime au fil de ses rues
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Métronome, c'était le grand souffle de l'Histoire de France sur la capitale. Métronome 2, c'est tout le passé des Parisiens qui se déroule au fil de nos pas...
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Caligula: Life of a Roman Emperor
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Suetonius' most important surviving work is known as the "De Vita Caesarum", a set of twelve biographies of the successive Roman rulers.
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Les Prémices de la Révolution (La Révolution Française 1)
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Formidable fresque relatant tous les grands episodes de la Révolution Française !
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Histoire du Château de Versailles
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Histoire du célèbre château en deux parties :
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Louis XIV
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Quel roi ! Le plus long règne, la plus longue vie, le plus beau palais, des guerres sans fin, des amours multiples, une splendeur incroyable, de la gloire à n'en plus finir, une cour royale fastueuse...
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Ivan IV the Terrible was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547, then Tsar of All Russia until his death in 1584. He transformed Russia from a medieval state into an empire, though at immense cost to its people, and its broader, long-term economy. He was described as intelligent and devout, yet given to rages and prone to episodic outbreaks of mental instability that increased with his age. In one such outburst, he killed his son and heir Ivan Ivanovich, which left his younger son, pious but politically ineffectual, to inherit the throne.
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Alexander III, Emperor of Russia
- Russian History
- Written by: James Gardner
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Alexander III was Emperor of Russia from 1881 until his death in 1894. He was highly conservative and reversed some of the liberal reforms of his father, Alexander II. He was a pacifist, focused on the protection of his people; mostly seen as lacking refinement and elegance, he rather relished the idea of being of the same rough texture as some of his subjects. Discover the life and struggles of this influential ruler through this precise, clear and thorough presentation.
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Charlemagne, Charles the Great, King of the Franks
- French History
- Written by: James Gardner
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Charlemagne's wars in Italy, Spain and Saxony formed part of the common epic material, and there are references to his wars against the Slavs; but especially he remained in the popular mind as the great champion of Christianity against the creed of Mahomet, and even his Norman and Saxon enemies became Saracens in current legend. He is the Christian emperor directly inspired by angels; his sword Joyeuse contained the point of the lance used in the Passion; his standard was Romaine, the banner of St Peter.
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Alexander II, Emperor of Russia
- Russian History
- Written by: James Gardner
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Alexander II was Emperor of Russia from 2 March 1855 until his assassination on 13 March 1881. He is remembered as Alexander the Liberator, as he led the emancipation of Russia's serfs; during his reign, he kept seeking peace, although the context of the surrounding countries was proving more and more difficult. Although he went down in history as a reformer, his actions were too little too late for the revolutionaries of late imperial Russia, who managed to assassinate him in 1881.
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Peter I, Called the Great
- Russian History
- Written by: James Gardner
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter the Great ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire, leading a cultural revolution based on the Enlightenment, modernizing and rationalizing the Russian social and political system. "All his qualities, indeed, were on a colossal scale. His rage was cyclonic: his hatred rarely stopped short of extermination. His banquets were orgies, his pastimes convulsions. He lived and he loved like one of the giants of old." Discover the life and struggles of one of the most influential rulers through this precise, clear and thorough presentation.
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Catherine II, Empress of Russia
- Russian History
- Written by: James Gardner
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Catherine the Great was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader. She came to power following a coup d'état when her husband, Peter III, was assassinated. Under her reign, Russia was revitalised; it grew larger and stronger, and was recognised as one of the great powers of Europe. Discover the life and struggles of one of the most influential rulers through this precise, clear and thorough presentation.
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Alexander I, Emperor of Russia
- Russian History
- Written by: James Gardner
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Tsar Alexander I was the grandson of Catherine the Great. He became Tsar after his father Paul I was murdered and ruled Russia during chaotic period of the Napoleonic Wars. In Russian history, he is known as “Alexander the Blessed”. A legendary ruler, he led his country to one of her greatest triumphs, against Napoleon, although he was often viewed as an enigma by his contemporaries. Discover the life and struggles of one of the most influential rulers through this precise, clear and thorough presentation.
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History Of France, 1000 years
- Written by: Charlotte Yong
- Narrated by: Paul Spera
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In this audiobook, read by Paul Spera, each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture.
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14 Tsars, Emperors of Russia
- Russian History
- Written by: James Gardner
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Russian Empire was the third-largest empire in world history, stretching over three continents. It played a major role in 1812-1814 in defeating Napoleon's ambitions to control Europe and expanded to the west and south. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire extended from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea in the south, from the Baltic Sea on the west to the Pacific Ocean, and (until 1867) into Alaska in North America in the east. Its wide disparities bred dissidence and rebellions; along with its enormous size, this made it a challenge to govern.
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History of France: The Italian Wars
- Written by: Charlotte Yong
- Narrated by: Paul Spera
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In this audiobook, read by Paul Spera, each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture.
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History of France: The Struggle with Burgundy
- Written by: Charlotte Yong
- Narrated by: Paul Spera
- Length: 11 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook, read by Paul Spera, is her retelling of the essential episodes that made France. Each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture...
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History of France: The French Revolution, 1789-1797
- Written by: Charlotte Yong
- Narrated by: Paul Spera
- Length: 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In this audiobook, read by Paul Spera, each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture. This historical essays deals with France's earlier kings, the hundred years' war, the struggle with Burgundy, the Italian wars, the wars of religion, absolute monarchy, and the French Revolution.
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History of France: Power Of The Crown
- From Louis XIII to Louis XV
- Written by: Charlotte Yong
- Narrated by: Paul Spera
- Length: 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In this audiobook, read by Paul Spera ,each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture. This historical essays deals with France's earlier kings, the hundred years' war, the struggle with Burgundy, the Italian wars, the wars of religion, absolute monarchy, and the French Revolution.
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History of France: The Hundred Years' War
- Written by: Charlotte Yong
- Narrated by: Paul Spera
- Length: 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In this audiobook, read by Paul Spera, each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture. This historical essays deals with France's earlier kings, the hundred years' war, the struggle with Burgundy, the Italian wars, the wars of religion, absolute monarchy, and the French Revolution.
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History of France: The French Wars Of Religion
- Written by: Charlotte Yong
- Narrated by: Paul Spera
- Length: 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In this audiobook, read by Paul Spera, each historical event is replaced into context and presented in clear and easy-to-read snippets, so that younger and older readers can deepen their understanding of how modern France came to be and broaden their culture.